House of Commons.

AuthorBosc, Caroline
PositionASSEMBLEE NATIONALE

The First Session of the Forty-First Parliament resumed from summer adjournment on September 17, 2012. The information below covers the period from August 1, 2012 to November 1, 2012.

Financial Procedures

On October 15, 2012, Ted Menzies (Minister of State (Finance)) tabled a Notice of a Ways and Means motion to implement certain provisions of the budget that was tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures. The resulting motion, Ways and Means Motion No. 13, was adopted by the House on October 17, 2012. The Bill based thereon, Bill C-45, Jobs and Growth Act, 2012, was introduced the following day.

On October 19, 2012, Lynne Yelich (Minister of State (Western Economic Diversification) moved a motion to remove from Bill C-45 the sections relating to Members' of Parliament pensions (clauses 475 to 514) and to create from them a new bill, Bill C-46, Pension Reform Act. The motion, which was later adopted, also provided that Bill C-46 be adopted by the House at all stages without debate. Having completed the remaining stages in the legislative process, Bill C-46 received royal assent on November 1, 2012.

On October 30, 2012, Bill C-45 was read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. During the Committee meeting the next day, Shelly Glover (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance) moved a motion to have the Chair of the Committee write to the Chairs of 10 other standing committees to invite them to consider the subject matter of various provisions of the Bill, and to convey to the Finance Committee Chair recommendations, including suggested amendments to the Bill, by 5:00 p.m. on November 20, 2012. The motion also specified how the Committee would deal with these and other proposed amendments during its clause-by-clause consideration of the Bill and set timelines for its work on the Bill. After debate, the motion was adopted.

By October 18, 2012, six of the seven opposition days allotted for the supply period ending December 10, 2012, had been designated. Topics for debate on these supply days included: the economy, employment insurance, foreign investment, omnibus legislation, and food safety.

Procedure, Points of Order, and Questions of Privilege

On September 17, 2012, the House adopted by the following motion:

That, having considered the nature of a request made of the Auditor General under the Access to Information Act, the House of Commons waives its privileges relating to all e-mails...

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